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She admired me; she admired everything I did; she thought me handsome; I was the nicest-looking man she knew, next to Reggie. But she didn't love me. "What's more, Furny," she said, "I can't think why I don't love you." I couldn't see her clearly and continuously in the taxi.
"Your butler, your parlourmaid, your housemaid, your cook, your gardener by this time and Baby's nurse " Quite a number of important people, to say nothing of Kendal, who is perhaps the most important of them all." "And who was it who brought Kendal into it?" I was silent. "Nobody but you, Furny, or a born fool, would have dreamed of bringing Kendal in."
Jimmy looked at her; and he did what he had done that night when he saw her coming towards him in the lounge. He sighed a long sigh of complicated anguish and satisfaction. She heard it and she understood it, and she said, "I can't help it if I am like that. You'll have to take the risk of me. Please go away, Furny." And I went.
Viola sat on the one chair and Jimmy and I on the bed. Jimmy did most of the talking. He said, "Look here, my dear child, if there wasn't a war on, I wouldn't stand in the way of your amusement for the world. And there's a great deal to be said for you. I think you adorable in a tunic and breeches, and General Roubaix agrees with me, if Furny doesn't.
Jevons in an old Norfolk suit and with his hair rumpled was standing on a ten-foot plot of grass contemplating a bed-tester and four bed-posts that leaned up against the palings in the embrace of a bedstead turned upon its side, and Viola in the upper window was contemplating Jevons. He called to her, "Have you measured?" And she answered, "Yes. He says it can't be done. Oh, there's Furny!"
I'm uglier than anything here, but I'm much, much more alive." "You surely don't suggest," said Jevons, "that I've made you uglier?" "You've made me stronger and cleverer and bigger ever so much bigger than I was." "Much better in every way," I said, "than your youngest sister here, hasn't he?" "Poor little Norah! I didn't mean that you beast Furny! Of course I didn't. Jimmy what did I mean?"
When I got up to go, Reggie suggested that his sister should come and dine with him somewhere in town and do a play afterwards. She said, All right. She was on. And Furny would come too. He said, of course I was coming too. And in the end I went. I say in the end for of course I protested. It was his one evening with his sister.
I wouldn't let Viola cross in the same boat with that lot. "It ought to be put a stop to. "The place I'm going to the things I'm going to see and to do aren't fit for women aren't fit for women to come within ten miles of. Whatever you do, Furny and I don't care what you do you're not to let her get out." I suppose I suppose I made him some sort of promise. He says I did. I don't remember.
And after lashing himself up again he ended quite sweetly by saying, "It's my fault, Furny. I ought to have had two cars all along." I said it would be a good plan, if a black-and-white car was only to be looked at. I've no doubt he said it made him feel something, but I forget what. But when the morning came he wouldn't hear of my going. I was to stay out my fortnight.
I reminded her that Jimmy had said it hurt him because she wasn't there. She looked up and smiled. "He isn't here now, Furny." I took her to Ostend first thing in the morning and saw her on to the boat. I advised her to remove the foreign labels from her trunk at Dover, and to contrive so that she shouldn't be seen arriving by the up platform at Canterbury. "Oh," she said.
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